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Events relating to germany
Adolf Hitler joins the tiny German Workers' party, the members of which share his own virulent anti-semitism
Walter Gropius becomes director of the newly formed Bauhaus in Weimar
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany
The Spartacus League transforms itself into the Communist party of Germany
A vast crowd, assembling in Berlin, calls for a revolution and begins to seize public buildings
After ten days of street fighting in Berlin, Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are captured and shot
The delegates to the peace conference in Paris, mainly concerned with the terms to be imposed on Germany, hold their first session
The German assembly meets in Weimar and elects Ebert as president of the new republic
The peace treaty with Germany, ending the world war, is signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
The Versailles Treaty declares that Germany must pay reparations for wartime damages, with the precise amount to be decided by May 1921
The peace-makers in Paris assign the Sudetenland, with its 3.5 million German-speaking inhabitants, to the new republic of Czechoslovakia
The Versailles Treaty provides a corridor of land to give Poland access to Danzig and the Baltic, thereby dividing two parts of Germany
A right-wing military putsch seizes power for a few days in Berlin
A plebiscite in Schleswig establishes the border between Denmark and Germany
A Communist uprising in the Ruhr is suppressed with difficulty by the German army
The German Workers' Party, with Adolf Hitler as one of its leading members, changes its name to the Nazi party
The commission considering the level of Germany's war reparations to the Allies decides on $33 billion
Paul Klee becomes a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party, which now has about 3000 members
Wassily Kandinsky takes up a teaching post at the Bauhaus in Weimar
Germany is the first nation to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Russia
Thomas Mann publishes a fragment of his Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
The German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is appointed to the Berlin Philharmonic, and spends most of the rest of his life with the orchestra
France, with Belgian support, occupies Germany's industrial heartland in the Ruhr
German inflation reaches fantasy levels, at 242 million marks to the dollar
